The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-03-18
DYSPEPSIA'S GRIP.
uolp THE DISEASE HAS UPON
IT. TIE AVERAGE NEW YORKER.

~. reonle have an idea that the reason !
$40 is $50 much dyspepsia in New York |
WY ..., there is something the matter with |
49,, the city or the Croton water, or the !
ta' o- ,omething like that said an ex-
....l rhysician who was approached by
-..r ON the subject "There may be
a',i .....,- I'm an that. Tho climate is pretty
f,r o.ople Of weak constitutions. but
.r. SD than the climates Of some other
....e, where dyspepsia IS as little known
,1 ..cut plague is here Thorcal trouble
...-r.opio don't take time 20 eat and eat
a.n wrong way. Many man thinks he Is
- with consumption or heart disease, or
r5t. disease or something like that, when
natter Of fact nothing ais himexcept an
80. Of lunch house
Inn,h housc|
"a. .ir. lunch house Lunch houses make
Imaginary diseases than all other causes
t,- Thousands Of men think they have
i'm their system and rush away 10 the
-,,.ains or take q sea voyage, and fill their
~. fill Of quinine if they can't do any
'ttry else when all that ais them is the
,-.b house. Lunch houses cause more Of
called malaria in New York than all
.,o had sewage, bad as that is. don't be
1--we there is any more malaria around now
A.r there was thirty years ago, when there
.r.snt an intelligently constructed sewer III
,to United States. II people would only have
81 much sense about eating as they had then
.bsre wouldn't be any complaint about ma
LARA " dyspepsia either.
To show you what l mean, go into any OF
~. biv lunch houses down town about noon,
and what do you seei There is a long coun-
Tar on each side OF the room, and in front Of
s.cb counter, perched on stools in nncomfort-
.ble stoop shouldered positions, crowded III
together ike behring's in a box, is long line
AZ men. They eat-no, gorge IS better word
As fast as they can.
and what is il that they throw into their
s.ornachsl Pork and beans, clans, oyster
,i... beef la mode, fried potatoes, fried
ham and eggs, fried hash, fried cakes-greaSe,
spice. pepper and indigestible meat On that
they pile hot mince pie with crust like sole
leather and pour over the whole mass cup OF
scaldiDg coffee strong enough 10 raise the
dead Then they just stop long enough to
light a cigar which will paralyze the action
n the stomach on all this stuff, and bolt back
N busineSs with O load under their shirt
fronts like lead The healthieSt man in the
world couldn't stand that sort of a strain very
long. if il were combined. as it always IS in
big city ike New York, with confinement in
a close room, and very likely stopping posi-
t0n over desk.
That's all true enough, but where does the
malaria come inP
Now. Just wait minute; Pm coming to
that presently The liver is the first organtn
the body that gives out under the terrific
strain. II gets tired and refuses TO do its
work Pretty soon the man feels lassitude
and a queer pain in his joints. Then he has
headaches and feyers, and gets SO he doesn't
care a rap whether he lives or dies. He puts
out his tongue one day before a looking glass,
and it is apparently coated half an inch
thick with yellow furze. That settles it. He
is perfectly sure he has got malaria. Like as
not he gets his plumber TO 20 all over the
house and roll up a ruinOus bill looking for
sewer gass Very likely he wants 10 sell the
place and move out to Ringwood, or live i'll a
balloon, while he keeps his head ringing for
month at time with quinine. Then he be
gins 10 read up on his symptoms in health
books and pretty soon ho is certain that his
heart is affected, or his liver is being con
paresis about him The chances are, if he
isn't rescued and taken out Of the terrible in
huences OF that lunch house he will get TO be
a hypochondriac and health crank of the
most intolerabe sort aud will go around
drinking hot water and reading lectures TO
his friends on the advantages Of salt packs and
,teaming foot baths and liver pads. He will
get more crazy notions about hours OF getting
no and going TO bed and such things than you
can count in week, and he will lead his
family a life that will make them think Of
suicide with satisfaction About that time
tho lunch house is having its perfect work
The whole fashion OF midday eating in
New York ought 70 be reformed. IL men will
persist in making their business hours so long
that they have 10 interrupt them TO eat, they
should take at least an hour to it. They
should 90 10 some quiet resort and sit down
az a table like Christians with some friends,
with whom they can chat and talk Then let
them eat very light lunch-a small chop,
say, with piece OF dry bread or something of
that sort, giving themselves plenty Of time to
masticate and going away a trifie hungry. A
piece Of dry bread and an apple, or zweibach
and bunch Of grapes is the best kind Of a
iuHNh lOI uJSpepllCo' Leu 0H0li aOJuiO al
made dishes, grease gravy, pie and spice, and
drink nothing but light wines or water, and
there won't he any malaria TO speak of in this
climate. But il the present state Of things
goes on much longer the next generation will
not only be race Of dyspeptics-we're that
aresdy-but a race Of thin cheSted, round
shoulderei, nervous, irascible and weak
lyered Cranks.
"Of course the lunch house keepers arc not
TO blame. They have TO offer what they can
sell No doubt they would rather set forth
food that people can digest if they had any
choice in the matter It's the bad taste Of
their customers that makes the trouble" -
Boston Budget.